Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 494 557
Rank change year-on-year +91 +63 -210
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 640 582 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 2.70% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 558 502 665
10th Percentile £38,852 £47,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% +1.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 569 £57,500 -14.81% 125
UK excluding London +106 428 £57,500 - 71
Work from Home +136 420 £57,500 -11.54% 135
London +44 179 £70,000 -12.50% 51
North of England +109 137 £55,000 -4.35% 14
South East +34 98 £57,500 -11.54% 12
North West +45 92 £55,000 -4.02% 8
East of England +57 58 £51,333 +36.89% 10
South West +18 53 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Midlands -30 34 £55,000 +3.29% 11
Yorkshire +97 29 £57,500 - 3
Scotland -40 29 £57,500 -11.54% 4
West Midlands -22 19 £55,000 +3.29% 7
North East +5 16 £42,500 -19.05% 3
East Midlands -8 15 £51,250 -10.87% 4
Northern Ireland +24 11 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Wales +9 8 £60,000 +118.18% 2

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.94%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Trello
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 640 (100.00%) Azure
2 214 (33.44%) Power Platform
3 143 (22.34%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (17.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (9.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 61 (9.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 58 (9.06%) Entra ID
8 55 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (8.59%) Serverless
9 52 (8.13%) PaaS
10 49 (7.66%) PowerApps
11 41 (6.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 39 (6.09%) Azure Functions
13 38 (5.94%) IaaS
13 38 (5.94%) Power Automate
14 35 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 34 (5.31%) AWS
16 30 (4.69%) GitHub
16 30 (4.69%) SaaS
17 26 (4.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.56%) Broadband
2 42 (6.56%) Internet
3 23 (3.59%) DNS
4 20 (3.13%) Firewall
5 15 (2.34%) Network Security
6 12 (1.88%) WAN
7 8 (1.25%) VPN
8 7 (1.09%) LAN
9 5 (0.78%) DHCP
9 5 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.78%) SSL
9 5 (0.78%) VLAN
9 5 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.31%) MPLS
11 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.16%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (62.19%) SQL Server
2 187 (29.22%) Power BI
3 78 (12.19%) Data Lake
4 70 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (8.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 45 (7.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (3.75%) MySQL
8 23 (3.59%) Relational Database
9 20 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 15 (2.34%) Redis
12 14 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 13 (2.03%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.88%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.88%) Tableau
15 11 (1.72%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.72%) MariaDB
16 10 (1.56%) NoSQL
17 8 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (6.09%) Git
2 18 (2.81%) NUnit
3 15 (2.34%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.19%) Moq
5 12 (1.88%) JIRA
6 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.94%) MLflow
7 6 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.63%) MSTest
9 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.16%) JMeter
11 1 (0.16%) Selenium
11 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 182 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.50%) Finance
3 44 (6.88%) Advertising
4 39 (6.09%) Marketing
5 30 (4.69%) Games
6 23 (3.59%) Retail
7 22 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.03%) Legal
10 10 (1.56%) Music Industry
10 10 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.09%) Law
11 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.94%) Aviation
12 6 (0.94%) Banking
13 4 (0.63%) Police
14 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 264 (41.25%) Developer
2 169 (26.41%) .NET Developer
3 110 (17.19%) DBA
4 99 (15.47%) SQL DBA
5 97 (15.16%) Senior
6 74 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
7 73 (11.41%) Data Engineer
8 58 (9.06%) C# Developer
9 51 (7.97%) Lead
10 49 (7.66%) C# .NET Developer
11 43 (6.72%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (5.94%) Senior Developer
13 37 (5.78%) Architect
13 37 (5.78%) Internet Developer
14 31 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
15 29 (4.53%) Software Developer
16 28 (4.38%) Analyst
17 24 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (3.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (42.50%) .NET
2 206 (32.19%) .NET Core
3 188 (29.38%) ASP.NET
4 186 (29.06%) CSS
5 183 (28.59%) Entity Framework
5 183 (28.59%) HTML
6 177 (27.66%) Blazor
7 167 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC
8 163 (25.47%) CSS3
8 163 (25.47%) HTML5
9 54 (8.44%) .NET Framework
10 40 (6.25%) React
11 29 (4.53%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.44%) PySpark
13 21 (3.28%) REST
14 20 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
14 20 (3.13%) JSON
15 17 (2.66%) Razor View Engine
16 16 (2.50%) ARM Templates
16 16 (2.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.66%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.91%) Digital TV
3 20 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.09%) Social Media
10 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.63%) Life Science
11 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.63%) NHS
11 4 (0.63%) Replication
11 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.97%) VMS
2 34 (5.31%) Windows
3 15 (2.34%) Linux
4 13 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (42.81%) Agile
2 194 (30.31%) DevOps
3 193 (30.16%) Business Intelligence
4 187 (29.22%) Full Stack Development
5 185 (28.91%) MVC
6 171 (26.72%) TDD
7 161 (25.16%) BDD
8 116 (18.13%) Analytics
9 94 (14.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 90 (14.06%) Performance Tuning
11 89 (13.91%) CI/CD
12 87 (13.59%) High Availability
13 86 (13.44%) Collaborative Working
14 73 (11.41%) ETL
15 69 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (8.28%) Data Modelling
17 50 (7.81%) Data Engineering
18 49 (7.66%) Data Analytics
19 45 (7.03%) Mentoring
20 44 (6.88%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 621 (97.03%) SQL
2 280 (43.75%) C#
3 214 (33.44%) JavaScript
4 137 (21.41%) T-SQL
5 104 (16.25%) PowerShell
6 76 (11.88%) Python
7 32 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 21 (3.28%) Bash
9 17 (2.66%) R
10 16 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.03%) Java
12 11 (1.72%) Go
12 11 (1.72%) Scala
13 10 (1.56%) U-SQL
14 9 (1.41%) VB.NET
15 7 (1.09%) Groovy
15 7 (1.09%) PHP
15 7 (1.09%) Ruby
16 5 (0.78%) C
17 3 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 119 (18.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (10.00%) Degree
3 42 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 33 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.34%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.88%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.94%) CISM
8 6 (0.94%) CISSP
8 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.94%) GIAC
8 6 (0.94%) SANS
9 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.47%) CIPD
11 3 (0.47%) HND
12 2 (0.31%) CIMA
12 2 (0.31%) MCSA
12 2 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.88%) QA
4 6 (0.94%) COBIT
4 6 (0.94%) NIST
4 6 (0.94%) SLA
4 6 (0.94%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 4 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.31%) PMO
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (14.38%) Virtual Machines
2 52 (8.13%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.56%) Docker
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (8.13%) Terraform
2 50 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.13%) Ansible
4 11 (1.72%) Grafana
4 11 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.09%) Puppet
8 6 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 440 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 79 (12.34%) Databricks
3 24 (3.75%) Oracle
4 21 (3.28%) Facebook
5 15 (2.34%) Commvault
6 10 (1.56%) New Relic
7 9 (1.41%) Apple
7 9 (1.41%) Google
7 9 (1.41%) VMware
8 7 (1.09%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.94%) Adobe
9 6 (0.94%) Citrix
9 6 (0.94%) Sun
10 5 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) Nintex
11 4 (0.63%) SAP
12 3 (0.47%) Pardot
12 3 (0.47%) RedGate
12 3 (0.47%) Xamarin